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SOD interview with Peter Reckell; August 6th issue
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talbab1994
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Ellie
Jul 26 2012, 07:52 PM
talbab1994
Jul 26 2012, 07:07 PM
Liz<3Days
Jul 26 2012, 05:58 PM
I sense a "walkabout" in Bo's future.

This show is so fucked up.

DIE DAYS DIE!

FYI...the Hayes havent been taping and from what SSH said in their book tour, they dont think they'll be used in the future...but "they havent been killed off." (Well, Doug has...but Julie hasn't...little DAYS trivia for ya!)
Was this a joke when you said that Doug was killed off? I hope it was a joke!

Just curious too, when did you see them on their book tour? It's always nice to see them on the show....

Thanks!
I think she means in the past (2004).
WHEW! Thanks for that.
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Ellie
Jul 26 2012, 07:52 PM
talbab1994
Jul 26 2012, 07:07 PM
Liz<3Days
Jul 26 2012, 05:58 PM
I sense a "walkabout" in Bo's future.

This show is so fucked up.

DIE DAYS DIE!

FYI...the Hayes havent been taping and from what SSH said in their book tour, they dont think they'll be used in the future...but "they havent been killed off." (Well, Doug has...but Julie hasn't...little DAYS trivia for ya!)
Was this a joke when you said that Doug was killed off? I hope it was a joke!

Just curious too, when did you see them on their book tour? It's always nice to see them on the show....

Thanks!
I think she means in the past (2004).
Correct, it was in the past. BH was so excited to tell it too. I was shocked that Julie has never been been killed off. I went to the event in LA. They said the whole ALice/Africa thing is dropped. They taped scenes that aired during the cliffhanger and SSH taped additional scenes after the cliffhanger, but that's it.

Oh, I remembered that the DAYS book that's coming out is a healthy lifestyle book with the "younger" cast.
Edited by Liz<3Days, Jul 26 2012, 08:07 PM.
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Dreamer
Gone, But Not Forgotten!

BO willing leaving Hope for any signifcant amount of time is not believable. Bo leaving his daughter, mother, sister, etc, is a crazy idea. The "walkabout" idea has just been used and killing him off doesn't seem warranted. I will not buy into BO going crazy to set EJ up for killing Steffy, or even consider the thought he did the deed himself. Bo sent to prison? Maybe hel covers for Hope and goes to prison to do the time. This would elimate any death or walkabout ideas. Do you go to prison for attempted murder? We all hear Steffy never died, so PR/BO, probably are just getting a rest, until the SL can be told. Killing off either or both PR and MA is just insane. It will not happen.
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Liz<3Days
Jul 26 2012, 08:01 PM
Correct, it was in the past. BH was so excited to tell it too. I was shocked that Julie has never been been killed off. I went to the event in LA. They said the whole ALice/Africa thing is dropped. They taped scenes that aired during the cliffhanger and SSH taped additional scenes after the cliffhanger, but that's it.

Oh, I remembered that the DAYS book that's coming out is a healthy lifestyle book with the "younger" cast.
Thanks for the scoop! It's such a shame that the show doesn't use them more.
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I still don't know how they could have Hope around but Bo isn't "dead". I wonder if maybe he gets a "call" from Shawn and Bo goes out to help him wherever Shelle supposedly are. That could make some sense why Hope is around and Bo. Guess they could say that Hope had to stay in Salem because of Ciara. It isn't the best explanation, but could work.

My concern is that Bo will end up like Uncle Mickey. Everytime we see Hope she will have some excuse that Bo is at the station or something and that is why he isn't around.
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If he leaves to be with a kid, my money's on Chelsea. Then there's no reason for Hope to go, really, and there's a way to create tension between Bo/Hope if he abandons Ciara/Hope to go off and be with the kid he has with another woman.
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im going to miss PR so much.
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px780
Jul 26 2012, 09:10 PM
If he leaves to be with a kid, my money's on Chelsea. Then there's no reason for Hope to go, really, and there's a way to create tension between Bo/Hope if he abandons Ciara/Hope to go off and be with the kid he has with another woman.
That's a good idea cause if Peter chooses not to return then Hope could be angry and it could set up a romance for Hope. If Bo has gone off to take care of Shawn it would be weird for Hope to be romantic with anyone else.

We'll see. My money is on Peter returning. Not straight away, but I don't doubt he'll be back.
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I hope this is just a break until these writers can come up with something for Bo. I just cannot imagine Salem without Bo Brady.

I will never understand why soaps think the Vets should be totally pushed aside
Edited by luvmysoaps, Jul 27 2012, 06:06 AM.
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I could actually buy the whole Chelsea thing as a reason for Bo to leave. He has already (and several times, in fact) ran off to help Chelsea, even when Hope didn't like it. So that wouldn't be unusual. It would be a good reason for Hope to stay in Salem (cuz, if he left to help Shawn with something, I would wonder why Hope wouldn't go with him to help her son as well). And like you guys said, if Bo stayed for too long, it could cause a complete break up between Bope, because Hope would hate Bo being with Chelsea for so long and open up Hope for something new. I could buy that.

But the only thing is, wouldn't Billie go and aid Chelsea with whatever's going on as well? And this way, Billie would stick around in Salem as well... oh well...
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Come on Ron, We are counting on YOU !!

px780
Jul 26 2012, 09:10 PM
If he leaves to be with a kid, my money's on Chelsea. Then there's no reason for Hope to go, really, and there's a way to create tension between Bo/Hope if he abandons Ciara/Hope to go off and be with the kid he has with another woman.
Then that also opens the door for Billie to leave WITH Bo.....we know LR was still on set as far back as a few weeks ago....so IMHO if they are going to do that, maybe Chelsea is gravely ill or has suffered an accident and Billie and Bo rush to her aid....this opens up some tension for Hope as she is in Salem while Bo and Billie are together and bonding over whatever might be happening to Chelsea.
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On this show Vets don't "pass the torch" to the younger set. TPTB yank the torch out of the Vets hands, beat them over the head with it, and then TPTB step over the Vets limp bodies as THEY pass the torch off!

But good luck to Peter in what he does next!
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I would watch a show about well-developed Will, Abby, Nick, Sonny ... Phillip, Stephanie, hell even Shawn at this point. But Rafe, EJ and Daniel are not going to work for me as the leading men of Days. Sorry, not going to happen. Unfortunately that's exactly who Peter is passing off the torch to.

Bleh. Even all that aside I'll miss Peter. Yes I'm sure there was a bit of holding out and trying to use his popularity to get him the deal he wanted going on, but overall he's an asset to the show and a beloved figure on my TV screen. It's a sign of the times, I guess.
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granolagirl
Jul 26 2012, 03:03 PM
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Jul 26 2012, 01:58 PM
New writers come in and they want to create families that will leave lasting legacies. Like the Bradys, Kiriakis, DiMeras, Johnsons, Carvers, etc. But that has failed miserably lately. The Hernandi were a HUGE bust aside from Rafe. Rafe is popular, but I cannot stand him. He should be supporting for a little while to see if they can fix him. Arianna, Dario, and Gabi are all massive busts. The Jonas family sucked and was too insta-family to ever work out. Its time to abandon this. If someone wants to come in and try a new family okay, but move on from the Daniels and Rafes first instead of letting them float around to the real core families on this show and try again.
I agree with this -- I'm open to a new family because there have always been new families on the show. It's hard to talk about Shawn and Caroline passing the torch, for instance, because they were invented as older supporting players for their children's stories. Sometimes the writers can get more mileage out of new characters, even in supporting roles, than weaving existing characters in, just for the heck of it.

There will always be backlash against a new family; it's the writers' job to make sure there is as much to appreciate as to bitch about.
Frankly I always thought Arianna was far and away the best Hernandez.

Salem will need a new family to keep the incest at bay, but the Hernandezes and the Jonases aren't keepers. Days always has this uncanny knack for keeping what is forced and ditching what organically sparks.
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Manny
Jul 27 2012, 07:04 AM
But the only thing is, wouldn't Billie go and aid Chelsea with whatever's going on as well? And this way, Billie would stick around in Salem as well... oh well...
Logically, yes, Billie would go with him. But this is Days. They could throw in a scene between Bo/Billie where Billie says she has to stay for some bullshit reason (she's working on a case or whatever). Maybe Billie could even ask Bo to be the one to go, causing tension between he and Hope 'cause it's like Bo doing Billie's bidding.
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Jul 26 2012, 02:09 PM
Supergirl, I agree with looking at how Julie, Maggie/Mickey were used in their children's stories and such as the direction the vets should be taken.

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He'd rather be vital in his daughter's life than not vital on the show.


Great line.

I do think Bo and Hope have had a lot of story, and that their last few have been really lame. They should have had a more angsty reunion story after night time Hope/Carly, but I can't see them being broken up anymore. I think they should be supporting players though. But I can understand PR not really wanting to stick around for that. And, as Lysie pointed out, there's just no one of much interest to whom to hand the torch. I am actually not that into Will, but I think he could be decent, but I find this EJ disciple thing stupid, and I'm not interested. I think Abby had major potential too, and she's supercouple spawn, but you can't go back, and not getting into some deep stuff with her after the Austin thing and putting her in a lame angst/tension free insta love (the second, actually, as Chad was about the same) has already been done to her, and that hurts. I have a hard time believing Cameron's going to become interesting. Man, he is dull. But, yeah, EJ, Sami and company are going to keep holding the torch they've already held too long anyway.

Bo's not my favorite, but I've certainly had times of loving him over the years, but I just can't be as upset about this as I am about MA. This is PR's choice, and it sounds like he was basically told he can return if he feels like it.

The thing that really burns me though, is that SC and even GG and EM aren't all that much younger than, especially MA, but also PR, yet they remain. Though Dan, Rafe, and Brady are generic and bland. I guess they fit the stereotypical soap hunk mold, but I don't care one iota about that. I don't know if I find them attractive. I can't even tell because I hate seeing them too much to notice if they are.

And MR is no young ingenue, but yet she remains to play the moving on from Jack story again. Lame.
I would say GG, AS and JS are quite a bit younger than PR who is 57. Galen is 41, AS is 35 and JS is 33. That is quite a difference. That being said, age doesn't need to be a factor as long as the writing and good stories are there. Drake is about the same age as PR, but is apparently willing to accept a backburner storyline; PR wasn't. I will miss Bo and PR, but honestly the writing for the character hasn't been there for quite awhile.
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#SorryNotSorry

As much as I love the 80's characters, I think the torch-passing should have started in earnest about a decade ago.
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This has been a great thread to read. We need the wrighting to really wake up the viewers.
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magicsteacher
Jul 28 2012, 01:04 PM
AHM
Jul 26 2012, 02:09 PM
Supergirl, I agree with looking at how Julie, Maggie/Mickey were used in their children's stories and such as the direction the vets should be taken.

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He'd rather be vital in his daughter's life than not vital on the show.


Great line.

I do think Bo and Hope have had a lot of story, and that their last few have been really lame. They should have had a more angsty reunion story after night time Hope/Carly, but I can't see them being broken up anymore. I think they should be supporting players though. But I can understand PR not really wanting to stick around for that. And, as Lysie pointed out, there's just no one of much interest to whom to hand the torch. I am actually not that into Will, but I think he could be decent, but I find this EJ disciple thing stupid, and I'm not interested. I think Abby had major potential too, and she's supercouple spawn, but you can't go back, and not getting into some deep stuff with her after the Austin thing and putting her in a lame angst/tension free insta love (the second, actually, as Chad was about the same) has already been done to her, and that hurts. I have a hard time believing Cameron's going to become interesting. Man, he is dull. But, yeah, EJ, Sami and company are going to keep holding the torch they've already held too long anyway.

Bo's not my favorite, but I've certainly had times of loving him over the years, but I just can't be as upset about this as I am about MA. This is PR's choice, and it sounds like he was basically told he can return if he feels like it.

The thing that really burns me though, is that SC and even GG and EM aren't all that much younger than, especially MA, but also PR, yet they remain. Though Dan, Rafe, and Brady are generic and bland. I guess they fit the stereotypical soap hunk mold, but I don't care one iota about that. I don't know if I find them attractive. I can't even tell because I hate seeing them too much to notice if they are.

And MR is no young ingenue, but yet she remains to play the moving on from Jack story again. Lame.
I would say GG, AS and JS are quite a bit younger than PR who is 57. Galen is 41, AS is 35 and JS is 33. That is quite a difference. That being said, age doesn't need to be a factor as long as the writing and good stories are there. Drake is about the same age as PR, but is apparently willing to accept a backburner storyline; PR wasn't. I will miss Bo and PR, but honestly the writing for the character hasn't been there for quite awhile.
with Eileen returning as Kristen, i don't think Drake is being put on the backburner.
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granolagirl
Jul 28 2012, 01:18 PM
As much as I love the 80's characters, I think the torch-passing should have started in earnest about a decade ago.
Totally agree.

I think it might have happened if they'd been more willing to recast characters like Chloe, Phillip or Chelsea when the actors left. And even though I hated them when they were initially SORASed, bouncing backwards from the Shawn/Belle bunch to Sami and her men was a huge mistake, imho.

As it is, the main source of continuity are characters who have been super-popular since the 80s (plus Sami). Makes it harder to let them go, imho.

There's no going back though. They just need to commit to the characters of Will, Abby, and Chad, imho. Plus Gabi, probably. I also tend to think they should have recast Melanie. (Alternatively, accept that the show is dying and give us one fantastic last year with the older crew.)

And yeah, it's awkward to pass the torch to characters who are pretty close to moving into that generation. They haven't really aged Hope up that much, and it feels like Sami's about to run into her, age-wise.
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